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Jane Curtin, Jessica Lange and Susan St. James play three women down to their last nickels and thyme in High Cost of Living, each eager to drop the bad script life has tossed them, all of them desperate for money. They decide to rob a shopping mall. Curtin, with her wing-nut mouth, bolting eyebrows and thunderous thighs has the biggest role. While she never slips into Mrs. Loopner, or any other of her Saturday Night Live characters, Curtin is not as successful on the silver screen as she has been on the tube...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Two for the Road | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...really--a young Boston Globe reporter climbs into a beat-up sedan and sets off from Morrissey Blvd., driving just driving, all over the city. Waiting for someone to get hopped up and shoot a friend, or angry and beat up a girlfriend, or tired of drinking coffee and rob a Seven Eleven. When it happens, someone calls on the walkie talkie to tell him, and he drives like hell, pulls out a notebook, makes sure the names are spelled right, and then turns it into a brief for the Metro section, or maybe, if it's something powerful...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Park Street Under Blues | 7/8/1980 | See Source »

...supposedly disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. He suggests that on one of the out islands is an entirely unmerry band of buccaneers, living by a squalid code unchanged since their ancestors washed up there a couple of centuries ago. It is they who come out of the night to rob and murder unsuspecting voyagers, then sink their ships to conceal the evidence of piracy. Michael Caine plays a reporter who is investigating the Triangle. On a fishing trip, he and his son are captured by these physically and morally repellent people. Caine is required to revitalize the stock in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deep-Sixed | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

Former Crimson hurler Rob Alevizos (how quickly the adjective "former" attaches itself to a name after Commencement), ace of this year's Harvard pitching staff, was recently plucked by the Chicago Cubs. Alevizos was an instrumental part of the Eastern League championship squad this spring, compiling a gusty 7-0 slate with an earned run average below...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Summer With Few Smiles | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

...Rob Alevizos, Crimson pitcher emeritus (much more impressive-sounding than "former"), best of luck. The Cubs need...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Summer With Few Smiles | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

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